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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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Tag Archives: experience
IN TOUCH DAILY: JANUARY 24
Knowing God Philippians 3:8-14 It is possible for a husband to live with his wife for 50 years, eat at the same table, and share the same routine but never really understand her. In the same way, we can attend … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 29
The question then arises, “What sort of evidence would prove the efficacy of prayer?” The thing we pray for may happen, but how can you ever know it was not going to happen anyway? Even if the thing were indisputably … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 10
A blind man has few friends; a blind man who has recently received his sight as, in a sense, none. He belongs neither to the world of the blind nor to that of the seeing, and no one can share … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 21
It is not only poems or statues which seem to say, “I am myself alone”. A sunset, a flight of birds past the window, the gesture of an athlete, or the sudden onset of rain – any of these, at … Continue reading
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 15
Screwtape strategizes with Wormwood, using Time as a weapon: I had noticed, of course, that the humans were having a lull in their European war—what they naïvely call ‘The War’!—and am not surprised that there is a corresponding lull in … Continue reading
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Tagged actuality, anxieties, c s lewis, conscience, cross, enemy, eternal union, eternity, european war, experience, freedom, giving thanks, grace, humans, lull, meditating, present, present moment, present pleasure, reality, screwtape, separation, stupid confidence, the screwtape letters, the war, time, tortured fear, weapon, wormwood, worried
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 13
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism – the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good. But we have hardly yet begun what may be called Hedonics, the science or philosophy of Pleasure. And … Continue reading
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Tagged c s lewis, experience, fantasy, gloomy, hedonics, hedonism, infinity, literary criticism, literature, living, murmur of life, myth, philosophy, pleasure, possession, present concerns, quivering, realist, realistic, romance, science, story, wishful thinking, wonder
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